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About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

Small drones market to reach $8.4 billion by 2018

The Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) market will surpass US$8.4 billion by 2018 according to new research published by ABI Research entitled Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) Solutions Ecosystem. By 2019 the Commercial sector will dominate the overall sUAS market … Continue reading

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5.2 billion mobile users, 292 billion gigabytes mobile traffic by 2019

In February 2015, Cisco released the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, 2014 – 2019. Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2019: There will be 5.2 billion global mobile users, up from 4.3 billion … Continue reading

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Bring Your Own Glass (BYOG): 90% of smart glasses will be sold to enterprises in 2015

ABI Research expects 2015 to be a big year for smart glasses with unit shipment growth of nearly 150% in 2015, almost of all of which will be in the enterprise and public sector. The market intelligence firm expects over … Continue reading

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Networked Privacy in the Age of Surveillance, Sousveillance, Coveillance (slides)

[slideshare id=43830120&doc=rainiesurveillancesousveillancecoveillance-150123110104-conversion-gate01]   At Harvard University’s symposium “Privacy in a Networked World,” Lee Rainie presented the latest survey findings about privacy from the Pew Research Center.

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2015 Marketing Technology Landscape (Infographic)–1,876 Companies!

Source: chiefmartec.com Scott Brinker says: Even I was surprised that the number of vendors nearly doubled from last year’s edition, which charted an already-staggering 947 companies… My intention with this graphic is to visually demonstrate four points: Marketing has unquestionably … Continue reading

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The Simple Pictures Artificial Intelligence Still Can’t Recognize

Wired: Earlier this month, Clune discussed these findings with fellow researchers at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Montreal. The event brought together some of the brightest thinkers working in artificial intelligence. The reactions sorted into two rough groups. … Continue reading

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How People Ignored Each Other Before Smartphones

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What IoT Products Consumers Want (Infographic)

VB reports: The tech world is abuzz with interesting possibilities for the Internet of Things (IoT) lately, but regular folks haven’t caught up yet. Why the enthusiasm gap? That’s the question that Affinnova, a Nielsen company, set out to answer … Continue reading

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Man to Lamp Post: You Talkin’ To Me?

The installed base for ‘smart’ street light luminaires is set to grow rapidly, with network controlled nodes set to rise from 2 million today to 40 million by 2019–ABI Research

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What Data Scientists Do

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